Rosemary C Adaser
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Rosemary C Adaser Founder (& Former CEO) of the Assoc of Mixed-Race Irish • Retweets might be of interest.. [email protected]
Rosemary Adaser of @MixedRaceIrish tells CERD about the experience of her community in mother and baby homes & industrial schools, and highlights the importance of understanding historical antiblackness in Ireland. We seek a state apology for their treatment. Video Part 1 #cerd19
No Irish person will ever own a house or an apartment if this gov has its way. Everything they do is to enrich the rich and the #VultureFunds while young people leave in droves for Australia. irishexaminer.com/news/politics/…
🇮🇪 We continue the fight back against Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s shameful plan to turn the GPO into shops and offices. This is sacred ground - the birthplace of the Irish Republic, the heartbeat of the Easter Rising, a monument to our country’s struggle for freedom. Hands off Ireland’s proud rebel history! Hands off the GPO!
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Marianne Miller shared her story of survival with WJC in simple words: “I have been there. It happened.” We remember the past to protect the future. 1/2
Riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest speech by Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister. God, I wish we would have European leaders like this. Here's an excerpt: In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself? And his answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false. Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack. Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down. For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection. We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes. So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Read/listen in full: globalnews.ca/news/11620877/…
